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1660 – Daniel Defoe, sci-fi writer (Memoirs of Sundry Tranactions from the World of the Moon)

1909 – Herbert Berghof, actor (Out There, Red Planet Mars)

1912 – Reta Shaw, actress (Lost in Space)

1913 – Roy Engle, actor (The Flying Saucer, The Man from Planet X, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Zombies of the Stratosphere, The Magnetic Monster, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, It Came from Beneath the Sea, Not of this Earth, The Colossus of New York, My Favorite Martian, The Invaders, Silent Running, Kingdom of the Spiders)

1924 – Scott Brady, actor (The Fantastic Journey, The Invisible Man, The Immortal, Journey to the Center of Time, Destination Inner Space)

1924 – Maurice Jarre, composer (Solar Crisis, Solarbabies, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Firefox)

1924 – Norman Alden, actor (The Nutty Professor, My Favorite Martian, Planet of the Apes TV series, Back to the future), (d. 2012)

1931 – Barbara Bain,actress (Space 1999)

1936 – Joe E. Tata, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, The Outer Limits)

Joe Tata in The Outer Limits episode “The Zanti Misfits.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1939 – Richard Kiel, actor (Twilight Zone, Moonraker, The Phantom Planet, The Nutty Professor, The Human Duplicators, The Humanoid, Out of this World, The Incredible Hulk TV series, Our Robot Overlords)

1946 – Frank Marshall, producer (Back to the Future)

1948 – Clyde Kusatsu, actor (The Powers of Matthew Star, Meteor, Star Trek: TNG, Godzilla 1998, Dollhouse, Babylon 5: Thirdspace, Lois & Clark, ALF)

1952 – Christine Estabrook, actress (The X Files)

1952 – Raymond O’Connor, actor (Babylon 5, Hard Time on Planet Earth, Dr. Alien)

1953 – Ann Dusenberry, actress (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1954 – Isiah Whitlock Jr., actor (Europa Report)

1966 – Laura Stepp, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Voyager)

1967 – Jonathan Walker, actor (Continuum, Fringe, The Thing, V, Smallville, Flash Gordon, Stargate SG-1, The X Files, Cyberjack)

1976 – Colin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed, Jurassic World)

1979 – Elizabeth Weinstein, actress (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Smallville, Stargate SG-1)

1980 – Ben Savage, actor (Aliens for Breakfast)

1982 – Philip Ober, actor, d @ 80 (The Munsters, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)

1983 – Sean Brosnan, actor (U.F.O.)

1987 – Erin Way, actress (Warehouse 13, Alphas)

2011 – Jack Garner, actor, d @ 84 (The Bionic Woman, The Invisible Man)

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1901 – Ben Blue, actor (Land of the Giants)

1914 – Desmond Llewelyn, actor, d @ 85 (Doomwatch, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Moonraker)

1916 – Edward Binns, actor (Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1921 – Stanislaw Lem, sci-fi author (Solaris, Invincible, The Futurological Congress)

1923 – Judith Merril, [Josephine Juliet Grossman], sci-fi writer, d @ 74

1927 – Freddie Jones, actor (Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Dune, Krull, Firefox, Space: 1999)

1931 – Ian Holm, actor (The Day After Tomorrow, eXistenZ, The Fifth Element, Frankenstein, Dreamchild, Brazil, Time Bandits, Alien)

1931 – Bill McKinney, actor (It Came from Outer Space II, Back to the Future Part III, Galactica 1980, Strange New World)

1947 – Christopher Neame, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise, The Invisible Man, Seven Days, The Apocalypse Watch, Sliders, Earth 2, Star Trek: Voyager, Babylon 5, Superboy, Blakes 7)

1951 – Joe Pantoliano, actor (The Matrix, Roswell, Robot in the Family, Congo)

1955 – Peter Scolari, actor (Honey I Shrunk the Kids)

1957 – Hans Zimmer, composer (Inception, Man of Steel)

1958 – The Blob, a low-budget teen film starring Steve McQueen which develops a cult following and is remade in 1988, is released.

The Blob released 1958

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1958 – Gregg Edelman, actor (The Manhattan Project)

1960 – Robert John Burke, actor (RoboCop 3)

1962 – Amy Yasbeck, actress (Quantum Leap)

1963 – Ramon Franco, actor (Resident Evil: Extinction, The X Files)

1966 – Darren E. Burrows, actor (The Lone Gunmen, The X Files, Class of 1999, Hard Time on Planet Earth)

1969 – James Frey, sci-fi author (I Am Number Four)

1978 – Frank Fergusson, actor, d @ 78 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Land of the Giants, Twilight Zone, The Adventures of Superman, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein)

1981 – Marty Adams, actor (Dead Before Dawn 3D, Repo Men, Repo! The Genetic Opera)

1986 – Emmy Rossum, actress (The Day After Tomorrow, Comet)

1987 – John Qualen, actor, d @ 87 (My Favorite Martian, Science Fiction Theatre)

1992 – Ed Peck, actor, d @ 75 (The Incredible Hulk, Land of the Giants, Star Trek, The Invaders)

1993 – Raymond Burr, actor, d @ 76 (Tales of Tomorrow, Godzilla: King of the Monsters!, Godzilla 1985: The legend is Reborn)

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1909 – Anne Seymour, actress (Planet of the Apes, Trancers)

1917 – Herbert Lom, actor (Whoops Apocalypse, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, Mysterious Island, Project M7)

1926 – Alfred Slote, sci-fi author (My Robot Buddy, Omega Station)

1926 – Lee Richardson, actor (Fly 2)

1928 – Earl Holliman, actor (Forbidden Planet, Twilight Zone, Visit to a Small Planet, The Six Million Dollar Man)

Earl Holliman in Forbidden Planet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1929 – Eve Brent, actress (Roswell, Weird Science, BrainWaves, Adventures of Superman)

1934 – Ian Abercrombie, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Babylon 5, Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000, Otherworld, Voyagers!, Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, Young Frankenstein, The Questor Tapes)

1936 – Charles Dierkop (Star Trek, Land of the Giants, , Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1940 – Brian De Palma (Mission to Mars)

1945 – Felton Perry, actor (RoboCop 1 – 3, Automan)

1948 – Michael Sacks (Slaughterhouse-Five, Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land)

1949 – Kathrine Baumann, actress (The Thing with Two Heads)

1950 – Amy Madigan, actress (Fringe, Doppelganger, The Day After)

1956 – Tony Gilroy, writer (Armageddon)

1958 – Scott Patterson, actor (The Event, Them, The Lost World)

1958 – Roxann Dawson, actress (Star Trek: Voyager)

1958 – Julia Nickson, actress (Half-Life, SeaQuest 2032, Babylon 5, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG)

1959 – John Hawkes, actor (S. Darko, Strange Frequency, Taken, The X Files, Steel, Future-Kill)

1960 – Anne Ramsay, actress (Planet of the Apes, Star Trek: TNG)

1961 – Virginia Madsen, actress (The Astronaut Farmer, Star Trek: Voyager, The Apocalypse Watch, Earth 2, Zombie High, Creator, Dune)

1964 – Roxanne Biggs-Dawson, actress (Star Trek Voyager)

1967 – Harry Connick Jr., Actor (Bug, Independence Day)

1970 – Chester Morris, actor, d @ 69 (The She-Creature)

1971 – Percy Helton, actor, d @ 77 (Land of the Giants, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)

1977 – Leonard Carey, actor, d @ 90 (Adventures of Superman, The Invisible Man’s Revenge, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1979 – Ariana Richards, actress (Spaced Invaders, Jurassic Park, Tremors)

1970 – Cameron Richardson, actor (10.0 Earthquake)

1987 – Lorne Greene, actor, d @ 72 (Battlestar Galactica)

1998 – Dane Clark, actor, d @ 86 (Salvage 1, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)

2002 – Kim Hunter, actress d @ 79 (Planet of the Apes 1, 2, 3)

2009 – Zakes Mokae, actor, d @ 75 (The X Files, Waterworld, Outbreak)

2010 – Harold Gould, actor, d @ 86 (The Outer Limits, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Project X, The Invaders, The Satan Bug, Twilight Zone, The Man from Planet X)

2010 – Kevin McCarthy, actor, d @ 96 (Invasion of Body Snatchers [1958 & 1978], Innerspace, Trail of the Screaming Forehead, The Ghastly Love of Johnny X, Slipstream, Final Approach, Eve of Destruction, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Exo-Man, The Invaders, ‘Way Out, Twilight Zone)

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1882 – Paul Harvey, actor (The Flying Missile)

1898 – Bessie Love, actress (The Hunger, Battle Beneath the Earth, The Andromeda Breakthrough, The Lost World)

1914 – Robert Wise, director (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Andromeda Strain, The Day the Earth Stood Still)

Director Robert Wise

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1915 – Edmond O’Brien died 9 May 1985 (1984, Fantastic Voyage, Moon Pilot)

1927 – Gwen Watford, actress (Doomwatch)

1928 – Leo P[atrick] Kelley, sci-fi author (Dead Moon, Vacation in Space)

1931 – Philip Baker Hall, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Roswell, M.A.N.T.I.S., Man from Atlantis)

1948 – Judy Geeson, actress (Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion, Star Trek: Voyager, Horror Planet, Star Maidens, Space: 1999)

1951 – Harry Groener (Star Trek: TNG, Roswell, Star Trek: Enterprise, The Day the World Ended, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Star Trek: Voyager, Quantum Leap)

1953 – Amy Irving, actress(Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Classics)

1953 – Stuart Milligan, actor (Doctor Who, Whoops Apocalypse, Outland)

1954 – Don Wilson, actor (Sci-Fighter, Virtual Combat, Cyber Tracker)

1954 – Clark Johnson, actor (Re-Generation, Murder in Space)

1957 – Jim Jackman, actor (Zombthology, My Stepmother Is an Alien, Spaceballs)

1958 – Chris Columbus, director (Bicentennial Man)

1959 – Stacey Nelkin, actress (Fringe, Twilight Zone)

1963 – Jay Laga’aia, actor (Star Wars: Episodes II and III, Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!, Mysterious Island)

1969 – Johnathon Schaech, actor (Star-Crossed, Quarantine)

1972 – James Duval, actor (Lazarus: Day of the Living Dead, Evilution, Donnie Darko, Independence Day)

1974 – Ryan Phillippe, actor (Invader)

1974 – Sebastian Gutierrez, writer (The Eye, Gothika)

1976 – George Baxter, actor, d @ 71 (Flying Saucer, Unknown World, Twilight Zone, She Devil, Space Patrol),

1981 – Lindsay Maxwell, actress (The Butterfly Effect 2, Stargate SG-1, Seven Days)

1984 – Harry Treadaway, actor (Cockneys vs Zombies)

1985 – Elyse Levesque, actress (SGU Stargate Universe, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Smallville, Flash Gordon, 2030 CE)

2010 – Resident Evil: Afterlife released

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1899 – Neil Hamilton, actor (The Outer Limits)

1914 – James Seay, actor (Amazing Colossal Man, Killers From Space, The Flying Missle, When Worlds Collide, Day the Earth Stood Still, Phantom From Space, War of the Worlds, Science Fiction Theatre, The Amazing Colossel Man, World of Giants, Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Invaders)

1919 – Richard Webb, actor (Invisible Monster)

1923 – Cliff Robertson, actor (Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits (original & Showtime versions)

1929 – Nick Ramus, actor (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

1931 – Margaret Tyzack, actress (Quatermass, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange)

1935 – Topol, actor (Flash Gordon, SeaQuest 2032)

1943 – Art LaFleur, actor (Space Rangers, Trancers I & II, The Blob, Zone Troopers, WarGames, The Invisible Woman, Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again, The Incredible Hulk)

1944 – Jeffrey Alan Chandler, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, Twilight Zone)

1950 – Norbert Wiener, who had earlier coined the term “cybernetics” in his 1948 book of that title, publishes The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society, arguing the benefits of automation but warning of possible misuse and wide unemployment.

1951 – Tom Wopat, actor (Smallville, Meteorites)

1952 – Angela Cartwright, actress (Logan’s Run, Lost in Space)

1953 – Janet Fielding, actress (Doctor Who)

1954 – Jeffrey Alan Combs, actor (Star Trek: DS9, SharkMan)

1957 – The 15th annual World Science Fiction convention in London is the first held outside North America and draws an attendance of 268. John W. Campbell, Jr., the editor of Astounding Science Fiction, becomes the first three-time guest of honor (he had previously been guest of honor in 1947 and 1954).

1959 – Bruce Stait, actor (Fringe, Tron: Legacy, Smallville, Blade: The Series, Stargate: Atlantis, The 4400, Battlestar Galactica, Andromeda, First Wave, The X-Files)

1964 – Robert Duncan McNeil, actor (Star Trek: Voyager)

1965 – Charles Esten, actor (The Postman, Lois & Clark, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: TNG)

1965 – Michelle Johnson, actress (Specimen)

1965 – Brenda Epperson, actress (Bug Buster)

1966 – Time Tunnel Debuted on ABC

Time Tunnel debuts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1966 – Nestor Paiva, actor, d @ 61 (They Saved Hitler’s Brain, Jesse James Meet Frankenstein’s Daughter, My Living Doll, The Three Stooges in Orbit, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, World of Giants, The Mole People, Tarantula, Revenge of the Creature, Rocky Jones: Space Ranger, Creature from the Black Lagoon)

1966 – Adam Sandler, actor (Coneheads)

1966 – David Bennent, actor (Legend)

1968 – Julia Sawalha, actress (Comic Relief: Doctor Who – The Curse of Fatal Death)

1971 – Eric Stonestreet, actor (The Island)

1971 – Henry Thomas, actor (ET)

1972 – Goran Visnjic, actor (Extant, The Deep, Elektra)

1975 – John McGiver,actor, d @ 61 (Way Out, Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1976 – Rogelio T. Ramos, actor (Zombie Night)

1980 – Michelle Williams, actress (Timemaster, Species)

1994 – Patrick O’Neal, actor, d @ 66 (Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

1994 – Roy Castle, actor dies (Dr Who & the Daleks)

1999 – Ruth Roman, actress, d @ 76 (Day of the Animals, The Outer Limits)

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1894 – William Fawcett, actor (The Munsters, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter, Twilight Zone, Commando Cody, Captain Video, Atom Man vs. Superman)

1907 – Sid Tomack, actor (The Space Children)

1911 – Brian Morrow, actor (The Bionic Woman, Colossus: The Forbin Project, Star Trek, Lost in Space, The Invaders, Cyborg 2087, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, Twilight Zone)

1922 – Harry Harris, director (Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space)

1934 – Michael A. Hoey, director (The Navy vs. the Night Monsters)

1937 – Archie Goodwin, writer (Marvel Comics and Warren Publications)

1941 – Christopher Connelly, actor (The Bronx Warrier, The Raiders of Atlantis, Earthbound, Beyond Westworld, The Martian Chronicles, Salvage 1, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1942 – Nancy Ann Dibble, Netherlands, sci-fi author (Summerfair)

1945 – Willard Huyck, writer/director (Howard the Duck)

1948 – Lynn/Marilyn [Lorraine] Abbey, sci-fi author (Black Flame)

1950 – A. E. van Vogt publishes The Voyage of the Space Beagle, a “fix-up” novel from previously published stories, one of which would much later provide the inspiration for the film Alien.

1954 – Mark Lindsay Chapman, actor (Lois & Clark, Weird Science, The Langoliers, Swamp Thing, Max Headroom)

1955 – Julian Richings, actor (Man of Steel, Survival of the Dead, Re-Generation, My Best Friend is an Alien,Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms, Cube, Mimic, RoboCop, War of the Worlds)

1957 – Heather Thomas, actress (Swamp Thing, Cyclone, Zapped!)

1957 – The 15th annual World Science Fiction convention in London is the first held outside North America and draws an attendance of 268. John W. Campbell, Jr., the editor of Astounding Science Fiction, becomes the first three-time guest of honor (he had previously been guest of honor in 1947 and 1954).

1958 – Sonja Smits, actress (TekWar, Videodrome)

1961 – David Knell, actor (The Invisible Man, Total Recall, ALF)

1962 – Thomas Kretschmann, actor (FlashForward, Bionic Woman, Frankenstein, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Blade II, Total Recall 2070, Total Reality)

1966 – Star Trek, Debuted NBC

Star Trek debuts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1971 – Martin Freeman, actor (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Shaun of the Dead)

1975 – Larenz Tate, actor (The Postman, The Twilight Zone)

1975 – John Mylong, actor (Robot Monster), dies at 82

1981 – Jonathan Taylor Thomas, actor (Smallville)

1984 – Henry Wilcoxon, actor, d @ 78 (Doomsday Machine)

2006 – Frank Middlemass, actor, d @ 87 (The Invisible Man, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed)

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1900 – Emerson Treacy, actor (Science Fiction Theatre)

1902 – Roy Barcroft, actor, (Radar Men from the Moon, Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe, Destination Inner Space )

Roy Barcroft in Radar Men From the Moon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1937 – John Phillip Law, actor (Alienator, Barbarella)

1950 – Julie Kavner, actress (Revenge of the Stepford Wives)

1953 – The 11th World Science Fiction convention opens in Philadelphia, and is the first to present the Science Fiction Achievement Awards, informally known as Hugos. Alfred Bester’s The Demolished Man wins best novel, and a Hugo for Best New Writer goes to Philip José Farmer.

1954 – Michael Emerson, actor (The X Files)

1954 – Doug Bradley, actor (Proteus)

1954 – Corbin Bensen, actor (They Are Among Us, Beings, Atomic Twister, Spacejacked, Menno’s Mind, Inhumanoid, Aurora: Operation Intercept, Star Trek: TNG)

1955 – Mira Furlan, actor (Babylon 5, Space Command)

1957 – Stewart Finlay-McLennan, actor (E.A.R.T.H. Force)

1957 – The 15th annual World Science Fiction convention in London is the first held outside North America and draws an attendance of 268. John W. Campbell, Jr., the editor of Astounding Science Fiction, becomes the first three-time guest of honor (he had previously been guest of honor in 1947 and 1954).

1959 – The 17th annual World Science Fiction convention is held in Detroit, with an attendance of 371. James Blish wins the best novel Hugo for A Case of Conscience.

1959 – Queen of Outer Space released

1960 – Christopher Villiers, actor (Triassic Attack, From Time to Time, Doctor Who, Ultraviolet)

1962 – Cliff Simon, actor (Stargate)

1963 – W. Earl Brown, actor (The X Files, Deep Impact, Project: ALF)

1967 – Toby Jones, actor (The Hunger Games, Doctor Who, The Mist)

1969 – Angie Everhart, actress (Bugs, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1969 – Diane Farr, actress (Collision Earth, Roswell)

1973 – Alex Kurtzman, writer (Star Trek, Transformers, Fringe, Cowboys & Aliens, The Island)

1974 – Noah Huntley, actor (28 Days Later…, The Omega Code 2, Event Horizon)

1977 – Monique Gabriela Curnen, actress (Contagion)

1987 – Evan Rachel Wood, actor (S1m0ne)

1987 – Harry Locke, actor d @ 73 (The Creeping Flesh)

1996 – Bibi Besch, actress, d @ 56 (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Tremors, The Day After, The Six Million Dollar Man, Meteor)

2010 – Glenn Shadix, d @ 58 (Planet of the Apes, Multiplicity, Demolition Man)

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1934 – Paul Naschy, actor (Mystery on Monster Island, Night of the Howling Beast, Vengeance of the Zombies, Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror)

1944 – Swoosie Kurtz, actress (Heroes, Category 7: The End of the World)

1947 – Jane Curtin, actress (Cyberchase, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Coneheads)

1947 – Keone Young, actor (Men in Black 3, Star Trek: Enerprise, The Invisible Man, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Star Trek: DS9, Small Wonder)

1949 – Tommy Lee Wallace, director (Max Headroom, Twilight Zone)

1953 – Patti Yasutake (Star Trek: TNG FlashForward)

1953 – The 11th World Science Fiction convention opens in Philadelphia, and is the first to present the Science Fiction Achievement Awards, informally known as Hugos. Alfred Bester’s The Demolished Man wins best novel, and a Hugo for Best New Writer goes to Philip José Farmer.

1954 – The 12th annual World Science Fiction Convention is held in San Francisco, drawing an attendance of about 700. Guest of honor is John W. Campbell, Jr.

1956 – Fire Maidens of Outer Space released

1957 – The 15th annual World Science Fiction convention in London is the first held outside North America and draws an attendance of 268. John W. Campbell, Jr., the editor of Astounding Science Fiction, becomes the first three-time guest of honor (he had previously been guest of honor in 1947 and 1954).

1958 – Michael Winslow, actor (Spaceballs)

1959 – The 17th annual World Science Fiction convention is held in Detroit, with an attendance of 371. James Blish wins the best novel Hugo for A Case of Conscience.

1959 – Edmund Gwenn, actor, d @ 83 (Them)

1963 – Betsy Russell, actress (Superboy, The Powers of Matthew Star)

1968 – Mark Ivanir, actor (Fringe, Dollhouse, The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1972 – Idris Elba (Prometheus, Pacific Rim, 28 Weeks Later, Ultraviolet, Space Precinct)

Idris Elba in Prometheus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1972 – China Miéville (won 2010 Hugo for The City & the City)

1972 – Justina Machado, actress (A.I. Artificial Intelligence)

1976 – Naomie Harris, actress (Dinotopia, 28 Days Later…, The Tomorrow People)

1980 – Tehmina Sunny, actress (Heroes, Children of Men)

1980 – Blaze Berdahl, actress (Aliens in the Family)

1985 – Lauren Lapkus, actress (Jurassic World)

1989 – Rhys Ward, actor (The Strain)

2007 – Madeleine L’Engle, [Franklin], sci-fi author, d @ 88 (Ilsa, Love Letters)

2007 – Percy Rodrigues, actor, d @ 89 (Brainwaves, Genesis II, Galaxina, The Astral Factor, The Gemini Man, Planet of the Apes, The Starlost, Star Trek)

2008 – Anita Page, actress, d @ 98 (Frankenstein Rising, The Crawling Brain)

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1915 – Nora Marlowe, actress (Westworld, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

Nora Marlowe in The Outer LImits episode, The Sixth Finger.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1922 – Quinn Martin, producer, d @ 65 (producer, The Aliens Are Coming, The Invaders)

1932 – Frank Farmer, actor (The Invaders, Babylon 5, Capricorn One)

1936 – Alyce Andrece, actress (Star Trek)

1936 – Rhae Andrece, actress (Star Trek)

1939 – William Devane (Doomsday Rock, Virus, Timestalkers, The X-Files, Stargate SG-1, Interstellar, Race to Space, Hollow Man, Space Cowboys, Timecop)

1939 – George Lazenby, actor (Superboy, Death Dimension)

1940 – Raquel Welch, actress (Lois & Clark, Mork & Mindy, Fantastic Voyage)

1944 – Rod Arrants, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Dark Planet, Hard Time on Planet Earth, Star Trek: TNG)

1946 – Dennis Dugan, actor (Unidentified Flying Oddball)

1948 – Scott H. Reiniger, actor (Dawn of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead)

1951 – Michael Keaton, actor (RoboCop Multiplicity)

1953 – The 11th World Science Fiction convention opens in Philadelphia, and is the first to present the Science Fiction Achievement Awards, informally known as Hugos. Alfred Bester’s The Demolished Man wins best novel, and a Hugo for Best New Writer goes to Philip José Farmer.

1954 – The 12th annual World Science Fiction Convention is held in San Francisco, drawing an attendance of about 700. Guest of honor is John W. Campbell, Jr.

1955 – The 13th annual World Science Fiction Convention in Cleveland, with Isaac Asimov as guest of honor, draws about 380 attendees.

1959 – The 17th annual World Science Fiction convention is held in Detroit, with an attendance of 371. James Blish wins the best novel Hugo for A Case of Conscience.

1962 – Peter Wingfield, actor (Alphas, Caprica, Stonehenge Apocalypse, 10,000 Days, Smallville, Anromeda, Stargate SG-1)

1969 – Dweezil Zappa, actor (The Running Man)

1973 – Rose MacGowan, actress (Once Upon a Time, Encino Man)

1974 – Paddy Considine (The World’s End)

1976 – Carice Van Houten (Repo Men, From Time to Time)

1992 – Fritz [Reuter] Leiber Jr, sci-fi author, d @ 81 (Bazaar of the Bizarre)

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1907 – Reggie Nalder, actor (Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica)

1919 – Howard Morris, actor (It Came from Outer Space II, The Munsters’ Revenge, Space Academy, Twilight Zone)

1928 – Dick York, actor (Twilight Zone)

1932 – Dinsdale Landen, actor (Doctor Who, Morons from Outer Space, Out of this World

1937 – Nicholas Worth, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Starforce, The X Files, Sliders, Star Trek: DS9, Timelock, Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II, Darkman, Swamp Thing, Coma, The Invisible Man, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1939 – Bob May, actor, (The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space)

1947 – David St. James, actor (Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Donnie Darko, My Favorite Martian, Alien: Resurrection, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Space: Above and Beyond, The Invaders, Lois & Clark, Monolith)

1948 – Michael Berryman, actor (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, The X-Files, Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time, Guyver, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Aftershock, ALF, Saturday the 14th Strikes Back, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Barbarians, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, My Science Project, Weird Science, Voyage of the Rock Aliens)

1951 – Judith Ivey, actress (Frogs!)

1952 – Alan Blumenfeld, actor (Heroes, Stargate: Atlantis, The Dark Side of the Moon, The Munsters Today, Innerspace, The Twilight Zone, WarGames)

1953 – Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, actor (Weird Science, Homeboys in Outer Space, Alien Nation)

1953 – Project Moon Base released

1954 – The 12th annual World Science Fiction Convention is held in San Francisco, drawing an attendance of about 700. Guest of honor is John W. Campbell, Jr.

1957 – Patricia Tallman (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: DS9 InAlienable, Babylon 5, Dark Skies, Army of Darkness, Night of the Living Dead, Hard Time on Planet Earth)

1959 – The 17th annual World Science Fiction convention is held in Detroit, with an attendance of 371. James Blish wins the best novel Hugo for A Case of Conscience.

1961 – Todd Sherry, actor (Alien Autopsy)

1965 – Michael Bent, actor (Threshold, Firefly)

1968 – Phill Lewis, actor (What Planet Are You From?, Starman)

1969 – Kristen Wilson, actress (Mega Python vs. Gatoroid)

1969 – Noah Taylor, actor (Edge of Tomorrow)

1970 – Richard Speight Jr., actor (Big Monster on Campus, Menno’s Mind, Hypernauts, Amanda & the Alien)

1972 – Francoise Yip, actor (Sanctuary, Fringe, Caprica, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, Flash Gordon, Andromeda, Blade:Trinity, Smallville, Mindstorm, RoboCop: Prime Directives, Earth: Final Conflict, Futuresport)

1975 – Kai Owen, actor (Torchwood, Rocket Man)

1975 – Space 1999 debuted on RAI & ITV

Space 1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1977 – John Ruby, actor (The Event)

1978 – Wes Bentley, actor (The Hunger Games, Underworld: Awakening)

1987 – Richard Marquand, director, d @ 49 (Return of the Jedi)

1991 – Tom Tryon, actor, d @ 65 (I Married a Monster from Outer Space)

1991 – Carter Jenkins, actor (Aliens in the Attic, The 4400, Surface)

1992 – Caitlin Fein, actress (The X Files, Deep Impact)

1992 – Amanda Fein, actress (The X Files, Deep Impact)

1999 – Ellie Darcey-Alden, actress (Doctor Who)

2009 – Iain Cuthbertson, actor, d @ 79 (The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Doctor Who)